Welcome to our ESL blog! We get a lot of questions about English grammar and vocabulary usage, so we decided to start a blog to answer some of these. If you have any questions, feel free to write us and we'll try to clear things up for you :)
Most of our explanations are based on American English usage. The examples are often (although not always) valid for British English as well.
Robert and Armen
- co-founders of LearnEnglishFeelGood.com
LIST OF ENTRIES:
October 16, 2008: Election terminology: Idioms relating to campaigning and elections
October 15, 2008: To stick it out, to stick to something, to stick around
October 14, 2008: I wish I were there/I wish I would be there
October 13, 2008: Crank it up
July 25, 2008: Talking about the weekend
July 24, 2008: No worries, Don't worry (about it)
July 23, 2008: Other uses of the word 'dead'
July 22, 2008: Ever-changing idioms
June 30, 2008: To get carded
June 29, 2008: Feeling good and feeling well
June 25, 2008: "I like" versus "I'm liking"
June 24, 2008: "To follow your nose" and other idioms noone uses
June 18, 2008: To freak out/"She freaked out on me"
June 17, 2008: To be beside oneself
June 14, 2008: What's the difference between "that does it" and "that'll do"?
June 11, 2008: To do an about face
June 10, 2008: Anyhow, anyway
May 7, 2008: Crazy, crazed, craze
May 6, 2008: To be off
April 28, 2008: Loaded
April 18, 2008: To meet, to encounter, to come across, to run into
April 14, 2008: I decided against going/I decided to go
April 3, 2008: I would rather you come/came: Subjunctive tenses in English
March 27, 2008: To beat someone to the punch
March 25, 2008: The difference between "different" and "another"
March 19, 2008: Is "stand-up comic" the same as "stand-up guy"?
March 17, 2008: Get it over with
March 12, 2008: What have you been smoking?
March 10, 2008: Stove, oven, range... what's the difference?
March 7, 2008: What does "tacked-on" mean?
March 6, 2008: Fast or quickly?
March 4, 2008: Person, people, persons
March 3, 2008: How not to use the word "credit"
